Holiness Church

The community around Holiness Church

It takes 3.0 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 4 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter of the people here live below the poverty line. A scattered parish is still a parish.

Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.

• Child Poverty: 40.5% (23.5–57.9%)
• Social Isolation: 38.2%
• Poverty Rate: 27.3% (16.9–37.8%)
• Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.5%
• Food Insecurity: 22.7%
• Diabetes: 15.2%
• Obesity: 39.5%
• Housing Insecurity: 17.4%
• Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.0%
• Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.4% (8.0–18.9%)
• Utility Shutoff Threat: 12.1%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

Churches near Holiness Church

• Ray City United Methodist — 1.2 mi away
• Silver Hill Church — 1.4 mi away in Lakeland, GA
• Ray City Church of God — 1.5 mi away
• Azalea City-Ray City Campus Church of God — 1.5 mi away
• First Baptist Church of Ray City — 1.5 mi away
• Ray City United Methodist Church — 1.5 mi away
• Ministry Baptist Church — 3.2 mi away
• St. Anthony of Padua Church — 3.3 mi away
• Knight Memorial Church — 3.6 mi away in Lakeland, GA
• Saint John Missionary Baptist Church — 4 mi away in Valdosta, GA